Hidden inside binders sit binders, inbreds, and rebinds, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 151 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
binders, inbreds, and rebinds tie for the highest Scrabble score from binders at 10 points. The top 10 of 151 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 seven-letter words hiding in binders: two come from rearranging its letters, and binders itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are binders, inbreds, and rebinds, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling binders turns up 13 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with brides and diners. For points, the strongest plays are biders, binder, brides, brined, debris, inbred, rebids, and rebind — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 34 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in binders. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bends, binds, birds, bride, diner, dines, and dries. For points, the strongest plays are bends, bider, bides, binds, birds, bride, dribs, and rebid — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in binders produces 52 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with beds, bend, bids, bind, bird, bred, and dibs. For points, the strongest plays are beds, bend, bide, bids, bind, bird, bred, debs, dibs, and drib — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling binders turns up 36 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bed, bid, die, end, ids, red, and rib. For points, the strongest plays are bed, bid, deb, and dib — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in binders. If a familiar word is all you need, start with be, id, in, and is. For points, the strongest plays are be and bi — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in binders and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
binders is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, and in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it's playable exactly as it stands and needs no unscrambling.
The 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record four senses for binders. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
binders is one of three seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing binders unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are binders, inbreds, and rebinds, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from binders earns more points in Scrabble. Words With Friends prices the same letters differently, so the top of the list changes on a Words With Friends board. Both scores count tile values only and exclude premium squares.
The letters in binders produce 151 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 seven-letter words, 13 six-letter words, 34 five-letter words, 52 four-letter words, 36 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.